单词 | thus far |
释义 | > as lemmasthus far 3. Qualifying an adjective or adverb: To this extent, number, or degree; as..as this; so; esp. thus far, to this point (often used to indicate the end of a quotation); thus much, so much, as much as this. In quot. 1393 correlative to as = as..as (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > degree or relative amount of a quality, action, etc. > [adverb] > to this or that extent thusa700 soc888 asOE so mucha1225 such ac1275 as‥soc1340 thisc1460 a700 Epinal Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1037 Tantisper, þus suiþae. c725 Corpus Gloss. 1982 Ðus suiðe. a800 Erfurt Gloss. 1037 Dus suidae. OE Beowulf 337 Ne seah ic elþeodige þus manige men modiglicran. c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 316 Sege me, beceapode ge ðus micel landes? a1250 Owl & Nightingale 758 For ic kan craft & ic kan lyste & þarfore ic am þus þriste. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14785 Woldest þu þus sone faren aȝein to Rome. c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 904 But thus moche dar I sayn. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. iv. 181 Hue is assoilid þus [v.r. as] sone as hure self lykeþ. a1451 J. Fortescue Wks. (1869) 550 Thus longe ys the cooste of Englonde on the oon syde of hym by see. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xlii. f. cix There shall not be layde vpon a ded persone but..thus many tapers or candels. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 21v I write thus much for the excuse of Vesalius, because he is so apertly reproued. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Epil. 1 Thus farre..Our bending Author hath pursu'd the Story. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 103 Therefore let me be thus bold with you. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 25 Thus far 'tis Duty; but here fix the Mark. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. xvii. 55 Then you confess, That who succeeds, thus difficult his Part, Gives the best Proof of Courage. 1823 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War I. xii. 617 The happy issue, thus far, of their civil administration. 1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 53 Yet you can speak thus calmly of unsaying All we have said. 1888 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 374 The legend..has thus much of foundation. < as lemmas |
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